Warn Users When Leaving a Page in React with beforeunload

Published: 17 August 2023
on channel: Colby Fayock
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Prevent navigation or page refreshing with unsaved changed using the beforeunload event in a React app.

We'll walk through setting up the beforeunload event listener inside of a useEffect hook and watching for changes in the form to dynamically apply the listener only when needed.

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